Saturday, July 31, 2010

Monsoon Chit Chat...

When I started from Howrah to Hyderabad I decided to take a break atleast for 4 -5 months before working on anything except marketing ‘song of life’!! But I think writing is something I really got addicted to and here I am back again working on my new blog!!Of course all credit goes to the weather in Hyderabad!! Its raining here for the past ten days!! And its real fun. I am absolutely replenished. And work is also going great!! So no complaints on anything.. All I do in my free time is to sit on the cement bench next to the road and watch people walking on the road near banjara hills.As I am in a perfect happy mood ..let me write some jokes ( request : if u think they r PJ’s; plz don’t blame me)1) Mom: - Son, go downstairs and pay the rent to owner Geek: Lemme call him and take his account number; i will transfer it online!!

( Copyrights belong to me.. lol)

2) I watched a movie named ‘Darling’. As the name says this a love story; hero is playing tantrums to impress heroine ( girl is from Switzerland) So this fellow starts talking some crap about Switzerland to impress her. This girl turns furious; she reaches him and seriously teaches him how great india is ; when compared to Switzerland .. that therez lot of effection and love in india which you don’t find any where in the world n all that stuff. And hero seriously starts liking her more.. ( no personal statements here ; i am giving a third person narration)..And guess what .. the scene fades to a beautiful location in Switzerland.. and a song starts between hero n heroine... lol.. lol..Come on guys!! I know film making is all about money for many people; but still you must atleast respect ur characters.. you must atleast know what exactly you wanna show on the screen..!! 3) This joke is about myself; I am a very absent minded fellow and most of my friends know it.. well well.. some people still remember me as an ass you couldn’t expand CPU in a job interview.So I started from howrah to hyd with a bag and a big cover stuffed with my clothes. I happily forgot everything about the cover got down in secunderabad station and directly went to swati tiffins nearby to have some breakfast!! And only after half an hour I understood that something was wrong!! And after five more minutes I understood that I left my all my clothes in the train !! I literally ran back to the station.. and the train left long back!!

So here I am ( with a single dress) and my mom told this to all our relatives and every one called me to know how I lost my dresses!! Cheers to life..

I am staying in Hyderabad in a hostel with my friend!! And all these fellows are preparing for civils!! And its real fun ... we can see those posters with writings like “ Guidelines for next month: 1) No time waste 2) No unnecessary discussions 3) Complete seriousness!!.. needless to say what really happens is completely opposite !! I see typical student gang here; playing cards all night and some dancing happily at night 11.30 dressed up in bunions and towels!! Not to mention those gossips on girls all night. If you are unlucky enough to receive a message from a girl saying “ good night and sweet dreams!!”.. consider yourself dead!! Not to mention those small biryani and thumps up parties they arrange at nights..so much of energies.. man I love this place!!

And let me end the blog with some of the discussions I had with a junior of mine regarding music!! A bit lengthy.. follow if ur really interested..

swathi: veena is going good; im all excited about it these daysme: excellent;i think i too must learn some instrument lol swathi: welcome to the clubme: sure sure so; tell me more about veena all technical stuff if ur free swathi: oh yeah veena has seven strings four for notes, and three for rhythm indication rhythm in music is called talamand ragam is a unique selection of notes, which will be used all over the composition each string plays two octaves and a total of eight octaves can be played on the veena me: slow slow; what are notes?i mean lay in termsswathi: note is a select frequencyme: okay octaves? swathi: every note is separated by a frequency of 16th root of 2 me: awesome; resonance stuff right? swathi: yes\see, sa and ri are separated by a frequency of 16th root of 2 if sa is played on x, ri is played on x into 16th root of two me: oh god; this is superb swathi: so, there are sixteen notes, between the lower sa and higher sa but we play eight hmmit seems to rain here also me: excellent swathi: so, when you play from sa, as ri, ga, ma pa da ni sa, you double the frequency me: we will up the frequencyswathi: ya up the frequency me: and the beauty lies in giving the right frequency change? and then get down? swathi: yes the frequencies you choose see, in music esp instrumentalme: oh god; its great even to listen this swathi: there are two kinds of instruments one is discreet, like the piano the diff between indian classical music and western classical music is that in indian, we emphasise on continuity;western ppl emphasise on discreteness string instruments and vocal instruments are the continuous treads indian music is very elaborate, btu so poorly documentedme: what r vocal instruments? swathi: flute me: okay swathi: drums, piano are discrete you cant generate continuous music in them me: okay yup...i see more continuation in veena;but in piano we go part by part swathi: yeah;veena is said to be a divine istrument used in ancient time for tapasu ;it has been given a lot of significance in the vedas if you knew, sama veda is about music.. completely..so it is said to have that concentration increasing and stress relieving ability in its musicme: okay swathi: it is a combination of math and physics to play the instrument;you remember the string problems we used to do in 12th me: yup swathi: we basically change the effective length of the string to change the frequency of the note by pressing it onto a wedgeme: okay; same is the case with guitar swathi: yeah;all string instruments mostly so...i dont know all that, but it is really good after you play me: cool.. stress relief aahswathi: like something reverberating in your mind... about three four hours, you can feel the reverberations around you yeah i play for an hour, and feel that for three four hours me: excellent i am going to learn one after some yearsswathi: im sure you will love it but be careful about the instrument you choose me: oh; why? swathi: you must like the music of it;then the experience is best you will like to play all the more and you get to be all the moreme: okay;how i will know what will be good for me?swathi: listen to various instruments and see me: oh okay; the most mystifying for me was fluteswathi: :) my committment to veena has been serendipity..but im loving it classical music is a whole discipline in itself;no wonder ppl pursued it academically me: absolutelly correcti feel; we will learn right manners in thisswathi: yeah but it is good to see the physics behind things also me: yup swathi: it is so intellectually engaging, trust me me: yup got it swathi: hmm.. im eating off ppls brain with this infactuation these days :Pme: We will be waiting for your concert then!!swathi: :) nt really learning for a concert but yes, i can play for ppl, not for fame me: thats the best reason to give a concert exactly swathi: but the art is great you know..i am getting realy engrossed into it me: awesome ;glad to here this;to tell the truth; i dont know about music much;swathi: my teacher is awesome me: great...but classic music ; i always sit n listenthere is that peace in it